March 14, 2025 • 40 mins
Filling in for Jason and Mike, Dan Beyer & Aaron Torres react to DeMarcus Lawrence’s comments about wanting to leave Dallas since there was no chance in winning a championship, and dive into Cooper Flagg’s injury impact!
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
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Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean, listen, think about what we didn't mention.
Mountain West is underway, some big bubble games in that league.
We'll have some late night West Coast stuff going on. Eight.
This this is how good it is. ACC tournament nowhere
to be found, Nowhere to be found, not just because
there's only three teams in the tournament right now and
the league is literally hard to be found in some cases,
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but that's how good of a night. We have four TVs.
With respect to the other sports, it's March. We got
four different games on ACC's on the back burner, Mountain
West is on the back burner. AAC it's just a fun,
fun fund.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
And here's the fact of the matter.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The fact, all of this is on the back burner
because of the drama that is in the NFL, and
the drama started in some and one of the the
least expecting spots. Sure In fact, Aaron Torres as a
as a lifelong Seahawks fan. The Seahawks today were introducing
their free agent sam Donold got introduced. John Schneider spoke
(02:31):
with the media their GM about how the Geno Smith
trade went down, how the DK Metcalf trade went down.
Mike McDonald was even asked today, are you guys tearing
it down or you guys going for it? There's been
some question in Seattle and what the Seahawks have actually
done in free agency. All of that was taking place,
(02:53):
but none of it could rise to the occasion of
the interview that DeMarcus Lawrence did the newest Seahawks as
he was in Seattle today talking about why he chose
the Seahawks and why the lifelong cowboy is no longer
a cowboy. This from DeMarcus Lawrence change.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The scenery is always good, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But Dallas is my home made my home there, you know,
my family lives there if I ever going to be there.
But I know for sure, I'm not gonna win a
super Bowl there.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Oh boy. But Dak Prescott told us it's their time.
It's the Cowboys time. That's what Dak just said three
weeks ago, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Oh my goodness again.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So I just want to Aaron's point about the Cowboys,
and I'll make it again about the Seahawks. Mike McDonald
was asked today by a reporter and a completely fair question,
are you tearing this down or are you building this up?
And DeMarcus Lawrence and I think they're building it up.
They're a ten win team. I actually think that they're
not tearing anything down. I think they're building it up.
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But the question is out there. And DeMarcus Lawrence feels
that that situation in Seattle is leaps and bounds better
than what he just spent his career with in Dallas.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
There you go. That tells you everything.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I mean, Uh, yesterday we were feeling in for Covino
and Rich and we were talking about Russell Wilson and
what the lack of offers tells you, what people think
about Russell Wilson. And to your point, DeMarcus Lawrence going
to Seattle given the you know, dice. He's not the
right word. But you know, listen, I know you're a
Seahawks fan, but when he when he, when you start
rattling off contenders off the tip of your tongue, I
(04:26):
get it. Yeah, Seattle isn't the first one that comes
to mind.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It's probably not even third.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
No, maybe behind Casey and Buffalo and.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Philly, maybe only team to not make the playoffs this
past year.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Can I can I make a guilty confession? It's I
know it's not the slide over whatever hour that Yeah. Uh,
J Mart and I were doing some on our Saturday
show eight to eleven Pacific eleven and two am Eastern.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
The other day we were.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Doing some some NFL reaction stuff and I think it
was in the heart of the like will Matt Stafford leave?
And you know, we were kind of talking the state
of the division, and I said, J Mart, I'm just
gonna confess this. Apparently the Rams finished tied with Seattle
Seahawks for with with a ten and seven record in
the division. I said, I don't remember Seattle winning ten games.
(05:16):
Now I know after doing a little homework, the Rams
clinched in week sixteen or week seventeen, they arrested all
their starters week eighteen whatever, so it wasn't even though
the record was the same, it wasn't maybe as close
of a race. I don't remember them winning ten games.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I'm sorry, I don't take it personally. It's totally fine.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
The only playoff teams they beat were the Broncos in
Week one and the Rams in Week eighteen, who didn't
play their starters because they had the division clinched at
that point. It's a very weird and funky season. But yes,
a ten game winner like it is, like it was
a funky, funky season, which I think people are saying, Well,
now the Seahawks are trading DK Metcalf and they're trading
they're trading Geno Smith, like what is going on in Seattle?
(05:56):
And I just think that Sam Donald is a same
version of Geno Smith. Both like to throw interceptions. Well,
it's just cheaper in a few years, younger.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Real quick.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
This doesn't have to be a Seahawks conversation because I
know it's about the Cowboys. I think the I think
the Geno Smith trade is much more reflection of how
much Pete Carroll loves Geno Smith than it is anything
that Mike McDonald is or is not doing, you know
what I'm saying, Yeah, if that just feels like that's
Pete Carroll's guy, he's gonna ride or die with them,
veteran for his rebuild whatever. But I don't, you know,
(06:27):
and I think Mike McDonald was like, oh, you're gonna
give me whether they give him a second round or
something like this.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Essentially, it's what joh Steider said, what happened today, Kay,
They wanted to resign Geno Smith, and when Gino Smith's
camp didn't come back with a trade request, they had
already kind of had a plan B in case or
didn't come back with a contract counter to what their
offer was. Thirty five to forty million is what they
offered Gino Smith.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
They wanted more.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You wanted to be a top ten paid quarterback in
the NFL. Johns Shatter says, Geno Smith's people didn't even
send a trade request back, so they felt good and
knowing that they could trade him to the Raiders because
of that relationship and how much Gino Smith loves Pete Carroll.
So you're absolutely spot on with that. But again, this
isn't about the Seahawks, We're talking about the Seahawks because
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DeMarcus Lawrence feels that they have a much better chance
at winning a Super Bowl than the Dallas Cowboys do.
And I think our point is right now, we don't
even know if the Seahawks are a top team in
the NFC at this point where people don't know if
they're building or tearing it down. Yet DeMarcus Lawrence joins
them in free agency and sees them as a much
more viable option than the Dallas Cowboys. So it's not
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you ripping on Jerry Jones and the lack of moves
that they made, or me ripping on Jerry Jones. It's
the fact that you now have a player who spent
his entire career in Dallas does an interview saying I
know for sure I'm not gonna win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
There. Micah Parsons has responded to this.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Video clip and quote tweeted quote xt whatever you want
to say, says this is what rejection and envy look like.
This is some clown bleep. DeMarcus Lawrence, within the last
thirty minutes has responded saying, calling me a clown won't
change the fact that I told you the truth. Maybe
if you spent less time tweeting and more time winning.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I would know.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
That's the first time I heard that it is on.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
It is, it is on. So now we've got the
Michael Parsons tweeting, nothing about his podcast or anything yet,
but that could come. So DeMarcus Lawrence is saying that Michaeh.
Parsons isn't focused. So now, if you're DeMarcus Lawrence, who
has been there so long, maybe you're in essence saying
that Jerry Jones and the regime that was there let
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stuff fly that shouldn't have.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
They shouldn't have let fly.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
There are so many underlying issues, and I know I'm
gonna come out of left field with this, and I'm
sorry I'm gonna make a food reference, but I've realized
who the Dallas Cowboys are, and the Dallas Cowboys are.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That you have to eat out of the garbage because
you're broken to do it all.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
No, the Dallas Cowboys are Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut used
to be the apple of anyone my age's I I'm
late forties. If you're in your forties going to Pizza
Hut when you were a kid, absolute bliss. The pizza
was magnificent, The atmosphere eron Torres was magnificent.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
It was the place to be.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It was also expensive as heck, like the Pizza Hut.
It was like twenty bucks a pizza back then. This
is thirty years ago. This is thirty five years ago,
long long time ago. But it was so good. You
would go to the Pizza Hut because delivery wasn't really available,
at least in my hometown, so you had sit down
pizza huts. Those have now all gone away. Pizza Hut
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also has kind of changed their recipe. Actually they completely
have changed their recipe. It does not taste the same anymore.
But you know what Pizza Hut does. They sell you
on nostalgia. You go to their website. You see the
red cups that you drank while sitting in the restaurant
when you were kid. You see the lamps that were
over your table when you were eating as a kid,
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all trying to tricky. You see the same tablecloth, the
red and white criss cross tablecloth. You see that on
their website now because guess what they want you to
think that this is the same Pizza Hut that it
was thirty and forty years ago. And what DeMarcus Lawrence
is telling you is that it's not the same Pizza Hut.
It's not the Dallas Cowboys, so much so that I
spent my entire career with the Dallas Cowboys and I
(10:28):
couldn't wait to get out.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
And I'm going to a team that didn't even make the.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Playoffs last year, and I think they have a better
chance at making the Super Bowl than what they've got
going on in Dallas. That's my food analogy on this
DeMarcus Lawrence Dallas Cowboys situation.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
The only counter that I would have. I don't think
Pizza Hut's falling off nearly as much as the Dallas
Cowboys have. I also don't now I'm not being sarca well,
I guess I don't think that the audience. I don't
think that the consumer is full by the Dallas Cowboys anymore.
I think this has been and you know I've heard
(11:02):
this these numbers sighted on on some of our other
radio shows here on Fox Sports Radio, but attendance has
been down at the training camp that we have not
far from where we are in what is it upstair Ventura, Yeah,
oxenn Art area, attendance is down. You know, I've seen
people cite the Athletic Poll where Cowboys fans don't believe
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they're a Super Bowl contender, and it fit like I'm
not even being sarcastic. I feel like the only person
that thinks the Cowboys are a contender right now is
Jerry Jones, no sarcas. I mean apparently Michael Parsons. But like,
you know, I've used this analogy and not this analogy,
but this story on my show is is my nephew
is young. You know, he's younger than me. He's about
you know, twenty twenty two years old, lifelong Cowboys fan.
(11:44):
He's too young to have remembered the glory days with
Emmitt Smith and Trey Aikman and all that.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
So he's too young to remember any glory with.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Any glory, no, no, no doubt. And you know, but he's
been glasses half full.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
He used to come visit me here in California. We
went up to ox Start a few times, and he's all,
he's been glasses that full. And I was in Connecticut
this fall, and this was even before the Dak injury,
and I was like, how you feeling, man, you know,
you know, they got off to a not great start.
I seem to remember a blowout against the Saints early
in the season, a blowout against the Ravens that they
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cut close and made it look respectable even though it wasn't.
And but I just remember this was before Dak got hurt.
He's like, it's awful. He's like, I know, we have
no shot. Our quarterback is stuck with us long term.
Our quarterback isn't the answer. Ownership doesn't help. And it
was more of a Jerry thing than a Dak thing.
But the only reason I don't totally agree with your
analogy is because I don't think anyone like we know
(12:40):
what Pizza Hut is, and I don't think Pizza Hut
is trying to sell us that they are.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Don't you know, don't disagree with the analogy.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And I'm going to tell you why, because you weren't
old enough or you're too young to remember what Pizza
Hut meant to us. And that star on that helmet,
Aaron Torres is a symbol that so many grew up with,
and now Dallas is trying to regurgitate the same thing
that Pizza does. Pizza Hut does with their awful pizza.
It is it is, It is so disappointing. We remember
(13:09):
the glory days. I even asked de Brie, who I
think is younger than you, and she said, yeah, she's
never been a fan of Pizza Hut.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
You probably have never been a fit.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I don't remember it being like that was.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It was the cats meow.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I am telling you of pizza places because there weren't
eighty seven chains either, but Pizza Hut was was what
it was. And now what Pizza Hut tries to tell
you is remember all this stuff that's old, completely ignoring
the fact that their ingredients just aren't good anymore. And
they take stuff and they try to redo it over
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and over again. And I feel that's the cowboys. Their
ingredients aren't good. They've got like three good players. They've
got a good thin crust pepperoni.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
That's it. That's all that they've got.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And they're trying to still sell us on the lore
of the Star and everything that comes with it when
it hasn't been that way for thirty Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
That's fair, that's fair. The only thing I just I
think they are trying to sell us. I just don't
think anybody is buying it. I just I know Mark
Michael Parsons has to say the company line, but I
just you know, it's just amazing to me, is that like,
first of all, and I think these are conversations we're
gonna have throughout the summer into the fall.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
One.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I just I think they might be legitimately the one
of the worst teams in the league. But I don't
ever remember a season going into a season where there
was just no reason to have excitement. Brian Schottenheimer was
not a candidate for any other head coaching job. On
top of all of the other things that got screwed
up that Jerry Jones has screwed up the last couple
of years, that coaching search was as big of an
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abomination as anything that I have ever seen in professional sports.
You frankly wait two to three years, probably too late,
to fire Mike McCarthy. Then the season tanks, then he
does just enough for you to consider keeping him, and
then you wait till after the sea. The point I'm
trying to make, I just think that I don't think
(15:02):
we can undersell how big of an abomination that search was.
If you want to call it a search, that coaching
higher and the residual effect of I just I don't
think the Cowboys are relevant going into twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I just don't.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I don't think I don't. I don't think so either.
But I also think that people would take eight other
spots before they order pizza Hut. They would rather take
local jeens. Are you a Dominoes or Pizza Hut guy?
Are you not?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Really?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I would take pizza hut?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Can I ask heron Shaye? Are you a Dominoes? Are
you a pizza Hut guy? If you had to pick one, Shay.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I love the the pizza hut stuffed crust. So you're
a pizza hut?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, a pizza hut? All right.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I remember when Manci lost a bet with me and
had to buy a pizza Hut for the whole place.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Sorry, Brady, mean to cut you.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I was just poking Manzi because she likes are you
a pizza Hut person?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I am an all pizza person.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I don't discriminate. Here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, Dominoes went and they said, here's garlic palm bites done.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Yes, here are sinner.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Twists like am I gonna buy a seven dollars. You
know little Caesars pizza. Hey, if it's nearby, sure, absolutely,
I don't discriminate, but.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
They all mix in the same pizza, just takes the
same stuff and tries to make it all over again.
Like you've got other other teams, other brands are passing
them by because they're just sitting there living in the
past like the Dallas Cowboys are. And it took DeMarcus
Lawrence going to Seattle again to a non Super Bowl contender,
to basically say what everybody else was saying. No former
Cowboys were saying this. No one was saying this. But
(16:31):
as you said, you feel that everybody believes that the
Cowboys are a joke. I agree. I think that everybody does,
except the Dallas Cowboys. But now you have a former
player who spent his entire career there who's going out
and saying, yeah, you're not gonna win a Super Bowl
in Dallas, and the place that he's going isn't even
on your radar of teams in the NFC that have
a chance to make the playoffs or maybe go to
(16:51):
the Super Bowl. I think that's even more of an
indictment on the Dallas Cowboys than it is on DeMarcus
Lawrence's new team of the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Seahawks and Torres's top three super Bowl. I don't want
to spoil all of our July and August content. By
the way, Brie, I completely cut you off. Are you
a Pizza Hut person or no, I'm so rude.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'm neither.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I love round table pizza.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
There you go see round tables, just the round tables
the Eagles and Domino's. Are the forty nine ers, are
the Lions or just all these other teams that are
taking over them.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
It's just there.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
There was a point when Pizza Hut was what it
was and just like the Dallas Cowboys were something, and
it is no more. Man the Marcus Lawrence though the
shot at Micah Parsons personally at the end, tweeting too much.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I will say in the Jersey swap era, I love
when guys actually go at each other.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
And that was that was pretty Yeah, that was magnificent.
All right.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He's Aaron Torres, I'm Dan Byer. We are in for
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon doing a little nighttime work.
You're more used to the evening than I am. So
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Speaker 4 (17:55):
I would say during the week, I get up at
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to the But yes, you can hear.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
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hang with us. You got to have a fall guy Trucker.
Joe tweets in I agree, old school Pizza Hut was
top of the line, especially with the buffet.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I do remember the buffet.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I was thinking about that is I don't ever remember
it being fine dining, but I was somewhere probably ten
years ago, and I was like, Wow, this Pizza Hut
buffet is really good. And I haven't seen one since Dan.
I haven't seen one since.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They were magnificent. He also included a picture of the
book at receipt. Did you have book it? Were you
old enough to have book it? This was the scam
that school. It wasn't a scam. They tried to get
you to read more as a kid.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Oh God.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And if you read so many pages you would get
a Pizza Hud award for a free personal pan pizza.
So if you read two thousand pages in the month
of March, your teacher would keep track of the books
you read. You do a report on it, and you
would collect it and at the end of the month,
you would get this certificate, which I at first thought
it was a full pan pizza. So I was very
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shocked when I got this tiny, four slice personal pan pizza.
But that's what ended up happening. But that's what you
would get, and if your whole class met their goal,
you could actually get a class pizza party from Pizza Hut.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
So.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I don't have kids, and I don't think really anyone
besides you has kids that's in studio right now. Do
they still do that because it'd be like everything had
like a thing, even like cigarettes. It'd be like, oh,
if you smoke this many packs of cigarettes, you can
send this back and get this free whatever. It's like,
do they still do that anymore? Maybe not with cigarettes,
but it'd be like, oh, if you if you get
all these Snapple bottle caps, you know, good stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I don't know what, Brie, what did you say that
they end up collecting what is boxtops?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Like you like imperial?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I know?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Do they still do that for kids these days?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't I know that they still collect like souper
labels or there's things that you can scan for soup
labels or remember that was a big thing. Yeah, the
box tops. I definitely remember. I remember that. I remember.
I do remember my dad. My dad was I think
he still is a smoker. And you know he used
to Marlboro points.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, coozies and cooler out of my deddiction.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yes, the good old Marlboro points, and you would get
you can get cool gear from it, right, you just
you just gave.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Up cancers a little bit of a small side effect.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
But look at look at this denim jacket I got.
It's amazing. Look at what I keep my pool queue
in it, says Marlborough. Here, it's amazing stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Cony packs. I had to smoke to get this leather jacket.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Too many, dude, too many.
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how we got on this topic. Uh, the topic in
hand is college basketball. We're gonna dive into the big
move that happened today and how it could affect the
(21:53):
NCAA tournament after Moncy Belanos gives us the latest of
what is happening on this Thursday night. So much going on?
You never collected Marlborough points? Did you want to go? So?
I did not?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
My dad he no longer smokes, thankfully, but he smoked
a lot growing up. In fact, my first sleeping bag
it was a marbile.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Sleeping bag, guys, my first one.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
It was red on the inside. It was like like
plaid and oh absolutely, like you know.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
My dad's mission was to say, everyone was so proud too.
Yeah I am, but that was my.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
First sleeping bag.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
So thanks dad, appreciate it. There's a lot going on
in college sports, so hopefully I don't miss it. Men's
men's college basketball, All right, let's start in the Big
Ten second round going on right now, still early in
the second half, but USC is topping Number twenty per
Due forty nine to forty six. At halftime of the
ACC quarter final Number ten, Clemson edging SMU twenty eight
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to twenty seven in the ACC Number thirteen Louisville.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Oh, it was a good ending shoots.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
It all fell Street missed it rebound. Stanford glance is
the way to Hanford.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I don't know how Chuck came up. We got to
see a replay.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
How the world did he get that?
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Paul Rodgers from lear Field, I don't know how he
got so bad Stanford kid threw it out by ass
accident basketball Gods, no, no, no, that was that was a
crazy moment. They edged Stanford seventy five to seventy three.
The Cardinals are going to face the winner between s
and SMU and Clemson still in the acc which I'm
sure you guys are gonna talk about Duke defeating Georgia Tech. Yeah,
seventy eight to seventy.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
But that's not the story.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
It's that Cooper Flag left the game with the spring
left ankle.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
X rays were.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Negative, but, as the coach said, a very long shot
that he's going to be able to play in tomorrow's
semi finals against North Carolina. In the second round of
the SEC, Texas top number fourteen Texas A and M
ninety four eighty nine in double overtime. So they're going
to face Tennessee in the quarterfinals. Number twenty one Missouri
defeated Mississippi State eighty five to seventy three, and they're
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gonna fly.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
They're going to.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Face number four Florida in the Big Twelve quarter finals.
Number two Houston and number seventeen b Yu both won.
They're going to face each other in the semi finals.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
In the Big East quarter finals.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Number six Saint John's and number twenty five Marquette both victorious.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
They're going to face.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Each other in the semi finals. Creaton outscored to Paul
eighty five to eighty one in double overtime.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
They're going to face the.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Winner right now between Yukon and Villa Nova. They just
got going. This is on FS one early in the
first half. Bit Yukon has a six to five lead, again.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Very very early in the game.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Let's check in on the NBA.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Now, Steph Curry, guys, starting today's game against the Kings
two threes away. No, he's only hit one from hitting
four thousand three pointers.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
So he's won away now because he's hit one.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
And the Warriors are beating the Kings thirty to eighteen
after the first quarter. Pistons lost at home to who
the Wizards.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
On twenty nine.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Washington I don't.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Care Chauncey Phillips and the Pistons lost. Okay, the Bucks
crushed the Lakers one twenty six to one oh six
despite four twenty five points from Luka Dancic. Magic over
the Pelicans, bowls over the nets.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Back to you guys. Oh yeah, Bucks getting a huge
one over the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Oh yeah, yes, yes, Moncey and I are you know
what are.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
They the same page? That's see yes, that's in sync
on that one.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Where were you when the greatest dynasty in the history
of basketball crumbled? Because J Martin and I were on
air when Lebron got hurt last week, and you know,
you don't want to see anybody injured, but thought the
Lakers hype was a little bit much considering that you
have a forty year old superstar and out of shape
(25:38):
other superstar, and it's like, you don't wish injuries on anybody,
but it's like you could kind of see that they
probably weren't. But that's outside of the defensive deficiencies. Everything
probably not perfectly built for four rounds of high leverage basketball.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Well, we'll find out in April and in May. Monzi
thinks that it's just a convenient time for Lebron to
take a break after tweeting out the schedule that he
was so mad about, which I liked that conspiracy theory
as well. By the way, there was a random tweet
like the Lakers are sending Lebron James back to Los
Angeles as he continues to progress well from his grade one.
I don't want to be so cynical about the guy,
(26:15):
but I do think that Monty is onto something. It
was this stretch right Moncey of the games that he
ended up tweeting about, and it wasn't a tweet.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
It was actually or maybe it was also on Twitter,
but it was on X and it was like on
his story and it was a screenshot of this upcoming
schedule and he was like, shaking my head.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Let me ask both of you. Okay, so I've given
out my breeze heard this a million times, but we're
a month removed from that trade. It still doesn't add
up to me. I'm sorry any especially Yeah, And like
I know, we're not supposed to be like conspiracy theories
and that's for the Internet, but it's like when Mark
Cuban even comes out and he can't explain how it happened.
(26:52):
And by the way, Nico Harrison's argument is, oh, we
value defense. It's like, okay, but now we're also hearing
that you tried it to trade for Anthony Edwards. Nothing
about it makes sense. And I'm not a conspiracy theory guy,
but i just will say that if you are a
conspiracy theory person, there's a lot to work with here.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
That's awesome, that's fair to say.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And there's some people who feel that the Utah Jazz
are gonna win the NBA Draft lottery, so Cooper Flagg
can go to Utah and be the great player. And
now Lorie marketing, it's not playing games. The Jazz are
being fined one hundred thousand dollars, so it looks like
everything's on the up and up.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
We'll see, Yeah, there's right.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
And then well I was gonna say too. The other
part was, I mean, forget we knew Ad was gonna
get hurt. Kyrie, you feel awful, whatever. But when the
before all the injuries, when the MAVs raise season ticket
prices for next year, it's like, yeah, if we've all
seen the loose conspiracy theory of they're actually trying to
pull a major league and be bad enough to move
the team out to be justified, to justify moving the
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team out of Dallas. It's like, that's kind of the
first step. You trade a homegrown superstar. All your fans
are Matt, So what are we gonna do. We're gonna
raise season ticket prices for twenty six.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The reason I bring up Cooper Flagg is he heard
his ankles. You heard Monty say today in their quarterfinal game,
and John Shire, Duke head coach, talked about the ankle
injury that Flag suffered earlier today in the ACC tournament.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
I would have to be like convinced by everybody in
the locker room when I go back that he should play.
You know, it's it's not worth it, you know, just isn't.
And again, I mean he was swollen already. It's not
about being ready to go tomorrow. That's not the most
important thing for us. We got to see if we
can get him right for this run that we can
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make in the tournament. I would have to be really
convinced that we should even consider seeing if he can
go tomorrow. He may not be able to go anyway.
He probably won't be able to go anyway, But I
think it's a real long shot.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
So John Shy are talking a lot about it. I
don't know if he said a whole lot, just because
in the back of my mind, Aaron, I'm saying it
would be best for Duke for him to not play
in these next two games if they end up advancing
and going to the championship, but also then letting the
committee know that Cooper Flag is okay and should be
ready for the NCAA tournament. There's a bit of a
(29:11):
little bit of a balancing act here when now you're
looking at Duke in this ankle injury of Cooper Flag.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, yeah, I don't really actually have a ton to add,
like he's not playing. It's funny. I saw all the
reporters on the scene, sources say he might not be avail.
It's like, no, he's not gonna, he's not one. He's
not available. We all saw the fall. You know, this happened,
you know, nine hours ago, ten hours ago, at this point,
we all saw the fall. We all saw video of
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him being carded around in a wheelchair. We all saw
the picture of his ankle and this. We know what
conference tournaments are. They're great. I love them. I understand
people that are a little bit critical of what is
the value of them really, But he's not playing tomorrow.
He's not playing in the ACC tournament if they advanced
to Saturday, and as John Shire said, it's about the
(29:59):
big tournament. And the other thing too is I don't
think there is a loss that Duke could take at
this point that would not that would result in them
not being the number one seed in the East Region. Uh,
They've got a season's worth of work under their belt.
They they do have a pretty good resume considering the
ACC is really bad. He's not playing tomorrow and it's
not really news otherwise.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I know you're trying to downplaying it, but I do
think that there is a conversation. I do think that
Duke has to has to say in I said, so
there's a chance that he could that that he could play,
because if you're saying that that part is no way
that he's going to play. Now the committee is like, so.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Really quick, I should have responded to that first, because.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
That's the most important the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Yeah, that's that's the most important point. So for people
who don't know the committee, if if the team that
will take the court in the NCAA tournament is not
the team that built the resume. In other words, if
you have an injury and that player will not be available,
you know, the committee is a post a factor that in. So,
(31:01):
as you know, Dan, I'm just telling this for the audience.
The most famous story is two thousand Cincinnati's the number
one team in the country. Kenyan Martin breaks what was
it a foot or a leg? I think it was
his leg in the Conference USA tournament. They fall to
a two seed. And since then we've actually seen teams,
you know. I remember one year Jim Beheim and Syracuse
long ago, they had a player named rinz Ona Waku
(31:24):
who was their starting center, and for like three straight
weeks it was just, oh, he's a game way, he's
a game away because they didn't want to lose the
number one seed. So to your point, I do think
John Shire has to make it pretty clear that he
will be available for the tournament.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
So, and here's the deal with Duke. When it comes
to the tournament, they're gonna get a number one seed.
The question is where they get number one.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Overall.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
The good news for them is one of the first
and second round sites is in Raleigh, North Carolina. That
is a Friday Sunday matchup, So Duke is gonna play
in Raleigh. You would have to imagine in the first
and second rounds of the NCAA tournament, giving Cooper Flag
an extra day of rest, they will also very likely
(32:03):
Aaron be in that seven o'clock Eastern time tip off game,
which is, you know, such a primetime window when you're
trying to set up first round games. There's no way
they're playing in the early session on Friday. So I
think the committee and where Duke is, they're not going
to do them any favors. But I think that Cooper
Flag is going to have the maximum amount of time
(32:24):
to try to be ready for the NCAA tournament. It's
now just the message that Duke sends out on how
serious that is and if it will affect their overall
seating or now.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Yeah, and maybe that's why John Shire answered the question
the way that he did, in the sense of like.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Oh, it's totally why he did it that way.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Yeah, I'd have to be convinced otherwise that makes sense.
I hadn't even thought that far about it. But you're right,
is the committee, they do have a responsibility if there
is a player that will not be available to see
you as such, and so I think that is that
is probably why John Shire left the door just cracked
wide open enough to say, oh, no, he's not out
for the tournament. No, it could be you know, I'd
have to let my guys talk into it, but he
(33:00):
could be back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I know the odd Couple touched on this a little bit,
but I for as much as Cooper Flag has been
great this season, I don't think he's taken over the
season like Zion did when he was at Duke, and
so I don't think you're going to see I think
that there will be people that will be brought in
by Cooper Flag, but it's still Duke in the NCAA tournament.
I don't think people would shy away if Cooper Flag
(33:21):
was like, let's say, not available for the first and
second rounds. They were Calvin may have brought it up.
Is it going to hurt you know, the tournament at all?
I just don't think that that's necessarily realistic, just because
I actually expected more of a of a I don't
know marketing blitz about the Flag this year, and it hasn't.
He's been great by all means he's lived up to
(33:42):
the expectations. It's just everything around it hasn't been as
big as I thought.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Yeah, I'll be really quick, so I thought it was
gonna be bigger as well. I think it's a direct
reflection of not only the ACC being down, but specifically
Carolina being down. And I'm just disappointed because I did
think there would be some momentum because Cooper Flagg, I guess,
such a good player that if they started winning, you know,
every game, you kind of bring in more people. Zion
(34:06):
from the beginning of the year was bringing in people.
Cooper Flag hasn't really had that effect. But I also
don't believe if he's not available first round, second round,
that impacts the tournament at all. I've heard those stories before.
I think it matters minimally at most.
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Speaker 3 (34:21):
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Speaker 5 (35:57):
Can I just.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Say one thing I love about March SEC Tournament. The
last game just tipped off here at ten to fifty
Eastern time. We're probably getting well past a one pm
one am Eastern finish time. There as guys that are
going to be on until two. I love that there's
just live sports on just.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
The entire It's magnificent.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
And this is the perfect time to mention this topic
because Kentucky's facing Oklahoma right now in the SEC Tournament
second round play. Big Ten second round play is USC
against Purdue, and in the Big twelve quarters we have
Kansas against Arizona. And you want to know what's so
(36:38):
unique about those three games?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
By the way, ACC clems in an SMU and a
pseudo bubble team as well.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Sure, and that just wasn't on our TV. That's but
you know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
New schools in different conferences, and you've got these games
like Oklahoma here playing for their turnurnament lives, like they
need to win this game against Kentucky. USC really doesn't
have tournament hopes unless they win the Big Ten. That's
their only chance of getting in. But we have Kansas Arizona.
(37:12):
And while it's not an NCAA tournament make or break,
how awesome is it that we get Kansas Arizona?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Pretty cool?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
And my whole point is in looking what we've had
in this first year of true realignment. And I understand
that BYU was in the Big Twelve last year, but
I still think that there's like a part of it,
like their story, in seeing what Houston has done in
that conference as well. But in this first true full
(37:39):
year of full conference realignment, no one, to me has
benefited more than the Big Twelve. And it has been
amazing when you see like, yes, sign me up Kansas Arizona. Yes,
of all those games right here that you would write
if you were to tell me, which game do you
want to watch? Kansas Arizona Big twelve football and all
(37:59):
was great this year. Who represents them? Arizona State almost
knocks off Texas in the Peach Bowl to do it
like they're there may be bigger moves Texas and Oklahoma
going to the SEC obviously on that landscape, but those
were the headliners.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
The Big Ten's four from the Pac twelve.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Were the headliners. But to see what the Big twelve
has got, Aaron, I just I've been amazed all year.
Every time we'd have a great game featuring I think
I even told you and BYU and Arizona were playing,
or Arizona was at Baylor, I'm like, thank goodness this happened,
because this is really really good stuff.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Well, a couple of things one first of all. The
other thing too, And I know this is why some
of the schools are strategically picked a lot of late
games too. And I know we had late games with
the Pac twelve, but it is different when it's Baylor
at Arizona, Iowa State at Arizona, Arizona at BYU.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Yeah, it's been it's been really fun, you know. I mean,
obviously part of me is a little sad about the
PAC twelve. But listen, you know, I think like, just
as an example, if you asked an Arizona fan, would
they did they love being in Vegas every year for
the PAC twelve tournament. They did, But would they rather
be in Kansas City challenging themselves against Kansas and then
the winner gets to face Texas Tech, which is a
(39:12):
top ten team. Yeah, they'd prefer that rather than going
and playing in front of Oregon State when Oregon State
has fifteen fans in the building. So there are you know,
some negative certainly to conference realignment, but some of the
matchups that we get it we are getting are no
doubt positive.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Look at how many great matchups Arizona got to play
this year in the big.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Twelve year fans are all thrilled.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Yes, yeah, and I'm sorry, I know you missed the
PAC twelve tournament. We missed PAC twelve after Dark and
the craziness of it. But any of those games that
Arizona would leave Tucson for do not register in comparison
to the other places. The home games didn't rich so
that they that they could go to. It's yeah, it's
(39:54):
a it's the same sort of deal.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
They'd get UCLA once a year and then other than
that it was, oh Washington's, oh cows here whatever. Now,
I just one of my best friends in media covers
Arizona and I texted him probably mid January when, like
you said, it was a Baylor on a Tuesday night,
or and I always stayed on a Monday night, or
Kansas at some point, it's just they Arizona basketball, you
(40:17):
could say specifically was. And by the way, the other
thing for Arizona geographically it makes sense as opposed to
a USC and UCLA that are flying all over the country.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Sure, and then you get to you still get to
keep your rivalry with Arizona State because they stay in
conference like it's been.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
It's been.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
It's been really good for the Big Twelve, not only
this past year but in the other editions as well.
Except for Bill self, he s and Tares, I'm Dan
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Speaker 3 (00:47):
And the reason being, you can't see this if you're
driving in your car right now. But I've got Kansas
Arizona on this TV. I've got Connecticut Villanova on that TV.
Over here, we've got Missouri and Mississippi State and a
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Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean, listen, think about what we didn't mention.
Mountain West is underway, some big bubble games in that league.
We'll have some late night West Coast stuff going on. Eight.
This this is how good it is. ACC tournament nowhere
to be found, Nowhere to be found, not just because
there's only three teams in the tournament right now and
the league is literally hard to be found in some cases,
(01:52):
but that's how good of a night. We have four TVs.
With respect to the other sports, it's March. We got
four different games on ACC's on the back burner, Mountain
West is on the back burner. AAC it's just a fun,
fun fund.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
And here's the fact of the matter.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The fact, all of this is on the back burner
because of the drama that is in the NFL, and
the drama started in some and one of the the
least expecting spots. Sure In fact, Aaron Torres as a
as a lifelong Seahawks fan. The Seahawks today were introducing
their free agent sam Donold got introduced. John Schneider spoke
(02:31):
with the media their GM about how the Geno Smith
trade went down, how the DK Metcalf trade went down.
Mike McDonald was even asked today, are you guys tearing
it down or you guys going for it? There's been
some question in Seattle and what the Seahawks have actually
done in free agency. All of that was taking place,
(02:53):
but none of it could rise to the occasion of
the interview that DeMarcus Lawrence did the newest Seahawks as
he was in Seattle today talking about why he chose
the Seahawks and why the lifelong cowboy is no longer
a cowboy. This from DeMarcus Lawrence change.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
The scenery is always good, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But Dallas is my home made my home there, you know,
my family lives there if I ever going to be there.
But I know for sure, I'm not gonna win a
super Bowl there.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Oh boy. But Dak Prescott told us it's their time.
It's the Cowboys time. That's what Dak just said three
weeks ago, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Oh my goodness again.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So I just want to Aaron's point about the Cowboys,
and I'll make it again about the Seahawks. Mike McDonald
was asked today by a reporter and a completely fair question,
are you tearing this down or are you building this up?
And DeMarcus Lawrence and I think they're building it up.
They're a ten win team. I actually think that they're
not tearing anything down. I think they're building it up.
(03:52):
But the question is out there. And DeMarcus Lawrence feels
that that situation in Seattle is leaps and bounds better
than what he just spent his career with in Dallas.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
There you go. That tells you everything.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I mean, Uh, yesterday we were feeling in for Covino
and Rich and we were talking about Russell Wilson and
what the lack of offers tells you, what people think
about Russell Wilson. And to your point, DeMarcus Lawrence going
to Seattle given the you know, dice. He's not the
right word. But you know, listen, I know you're a
Seahawks fan, but when he when he, when you start
rattling off contenders off the tip of your tongue, I
(04:26):
get it. Yeah, Seattle isn't the first one that comes
to mind.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It's probably not even third.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
No, maybe behind Casey and Buffalo and.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Philly, maybe only team to not make the playoffs this
past year.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Can I can I make a guilty confession? It's I
know it's not the slide over whatever hour that Yeah. Uh,
J Mart and I were doing some on our Saturday
show eight to eleven Pacific eleven and two am Eastern.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
The other day we were.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Doing some some NFL reaction stuff and I think it
was in the heart of the like will Matt Stafford leave?
And you know, we were kind of talking the state
of the division, and I said, J Mart, I'm just
gonna confess this. Apparently the Rams finished tied with Seattle
Seahawks for with with a ten and seven record in
the division. I said, I don't remember Seattle winning ten games.
(05:16):
Now I know after doing a little homework, the Rams
clinched in week sixteen or week seventeen, they arrested all
their starters week eighteen whatever, so it wasn't even though
the record was the same, it wasn't maybe as close
of a race. I don't remember them winning ten games.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I'm sorry, I don't take it personally. It's totally fine.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
The only playoff teams they beat were the Broncos in
Week one and the Rams in Week eighteen, who didn't
play their starters because they had the division clinched at
that point. It's a very weird and funky season. But yes,
a ten game winner like it is, like it was
a funky, funky season, which I think people are saying, Well,
now the Seahawks are trading DK Metcalf and they're trading
they're trading Geno Smith, like what is going on in Seattle?
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And I just think that Sam Donald is a same
version of Geno Smith. Both like to throw interceptions. Well,
it's just cheaper in a few years, younger.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Real quick.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
This doesn't have to be a Seahawks conversation because I
know it's about the Cowboys. I think the I think
the Geno Smith trade is much more reflection of how
much Pete Carroll loves Geno Smith than it is anything
that Mike McDonald is or is not doing, you know
what I'm saying, Yeah, if that just feels like that's
Pete Carroll's guy, he's gonna ride or die with them,
veteran for his rebuild whatever. But I don't, you know,
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and I think Mike McDonald was like, oh, you're gonna
give me whether they give him a second round or
something like this.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Essentially, it's what joh Steider said, what happened today, Kay,
They wanted to resign Geno Smith, and when Gino Smith's
camp didn't come back with a trade request, they had
already kind of had a plan B in case or
didn't come back with a contract counter to what their
offer was. Thirty five to forty million is what they
offered Gino Smith.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
They wanted more.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You wanted to be a top ten paid quarterback in
the NFL. Johns Shatter says, Geno Smith's people didn't even
send a trade request back, so they felt good and
knowing that they could trade him to the Raiders because
of that relationship and how much Gino Smith loves Pete Carroll.
So you're absolutely spot on with that. But again, this
isn't about the Seahawks, We're talking about the Seahawks because
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DeMarcus Lawrence feels that they have a much better chance
at winning a Super Bowl than the Dallas Cowboys do.
And I think our point is right now, we don't
even know if the Seahawks are a top team in
the NFC at this point where people don't know if
they're building or tearing it down. Yet DeMarcus Lawrence joins
them in free agency and sees them as a much
more viable option than the Dallas Cowboys. So it's not
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you ripping on Jerry Jones and the lack of moves
that they made, or me ripping on Jerry Jones. It's
the fact that you now have a player who spent
his entire career in Dallas does an interview saying I
know for sure I'm not gonna win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
There. Micah Parsons has responded to this.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Video clip and quote tweeted quote xt whatever you want
to say, says this is what rejection and envy look like.
This is some clown bleep. DeMarcus Lawrence, within the last
thirty minutes has responded saying, calling me a clown won't
change the fact that I told you the truth. Maybe
if you spent less time tweeting and more time winning.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I would know.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
That's the first time I heard that it is on.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
It is, it is on. So now we've got the
Michael Parsons tweeting, nothing about his podcast or anything yet,
but that could come. So DeMarcus Lawrence is saying that Michaeh.
Parsons isn't focused. So now, if you're DeMarcus Lawrence, who
has been there so long, maybe you're in essence saying
that Jerry Jones and the regime that was there let
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stuff fly that shouldn't have.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
They shouldn't have let fly.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
There are so many underlying issues, and I know I'm
gonna come out of left field with this, and I'm
sorry I'm gonna make a food reference, but I've realized
who the Dallas Cowboys are, and the Dallas Cowboys are.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That you have to eat out of the garbage because
you're broken to do it all.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
No, the Dallas Cowboys are Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut used
to be the apple of anyone my age's I I'm
late forties. If you're in your forties going to Pizza
Hut when you were a kid, absolute bliss. The pizza
was magnificent, The atmosphere eron Torres was magnificent.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
It was the place to be.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It was also expensive as heck, like the Pizza Hut.
It was like twenty bucks a pizza back then. This
is thirty years ago. This is thirty five years ago,
long long time ago. But it was so good. You
would go to the Pizza Hut because delivery wasn't really available,
at least in my hometown, so you had sit down
pizza huts. Those have now all gone away. Pizza Hut
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also has kind of changed their recipe. Actually they completely
have changed their recipe. It does not taste the same anymore.
But you know what Pizza Hut does. They sell you
on nostalgia. You go to their website. You see the
red cups that you drank while sitting in the restaurant
when you were kid. You see the lamps that were
over your table when you were eating as a kid,
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all trying to tricky. You see the same tablecloth, the
red and white criss cross tablecloth. You see that on
their website now because guess what they want you to
think that this is the same Pizza Hut that it
was thirty and forty years ago. And what DeMarcus Lawrence
is telling you is that it's not the same Pizza Hut.
It's not the Dallas Cowboys, so much so that I
spent my entire career with the Dallas Cowboys and I
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couldn't wait to get out.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
And I'm going to a team that didn't even make the.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Playoffs last year, and I think they have a better
chance at making the Super Bowl than what they've got
going on in Dallas. That's my food analogy on this
DeMarcus Lawrence Dallas Cowboys situation.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
The only counter that I would have. I don't think
Pizza Hut's falling off nearly as much as the Dallas
Cowboys have. I also don't now I'm not being sarca well,
I guess I don't think that the audience. I don't
think that the consumer is full by the Dallas Cowboys anymore.
I think this has been and you know I've heard
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this these numbers sighted on on some of our other
radio shows here on Fox Sports Radio, but attendance has
been down at the training camp that we have not
far from where we are in what is it upstair Ventura, Yeah,
oxenn Art area, attendance is down. You know, I've seen
people cite the Athletic Poll where Cowboys fans don't believe
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they're a Super Bowl contender, and it fit like I'm
not even being sarcastic. I feel like the only person
that thinks the Cowboys are a contender right now is
Jerry Jones, no sarcas. I mean apparently Michael Parsons. But like,
you know, I've used this analogy and not this analogy,
but this story on my show is is my nephew
is young. You know, he's younger than me. He's about
you know, twenty twenty two years old, lifelong Cowboys fan.
(11:44):
He's too young to have remembered the glory days with
Emmitt Smith and Trey Aikman and all that.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
So he's too young to remember any glory with.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Any glory, no, no, no doubt. And you know, but he's
been glasses half full.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
He used to come visit me here in California. We
went up to ox Start a few times, and he's all,
he's been glasses that full. And I was in Connecticut
this fall, and this was even before the Dak injury,
and I was like, how you feeling, man, you know,
you know, they got off to a not great start.
I seem to remember a blowout against the Saints early
in the season, a blowout against the Ravens that they
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cut close and made it look respectable even though it wasn't.
And but I just remember this was before Dak got hurt.
He's like, it's awful. He's like, I know, we have
no shot. Our quarterback is stuck with us long term.
Our quarterback isn't the answer. Ownership doesn't help. And it
was more of a Jerry thing than a Dak thing.
But the only reason I don't totally agree with your
analogy is because I don't think anyone like we know
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what Pizza Hut is, and I don't think Pizza Hut
is trying to sell us that they are.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Don't you know, don't disagree with the analogy.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And I'm going to tell you why, because you weren't
old enough or you're too young to remember what Pizza
Hut meant to us. And that star on that helmet,
Aaron Torres is a symbol that so many grew up with,
and now Dallas is trying to regurgitate the same thing
that Pizza does. Pizza Hut does with their awful pizza.
It is it is, It is so disappointing. We remember
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the glory days. I even asked de Brie, who I
think is younger than you, and she said, yeah, she's
never been a fan of Pizza Hut.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
You probably have never been a fit.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I don't remember it being like that was.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It was the cats meow.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I am telling you of pizza places because there weren't
eighty seven chains either, but Pizza Hut was was what
it was. And now what Pizza Hut tries to tell
you is remember all this stuff that's old, completely ignoring
the fact that their ingredients just aren't good anymore. And
they take stuff and they try to redo it over
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and over again. And I feel that's the cowboys. Their
ingredients aren't good. They've got like three good players. They've
got a good thin crust pepperoni.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
That's it. That's all that they've got.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And they're trying to still sell us on the lore
of the Star and everything that comes with it when
it hasn't been that way for thirty Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
That's fair, that's fair. The only thing I just I
think they are trying to sell us. I just don't
think anybody is buying it. I just I know Mark
Michael Parsons has to say the company line, but I
just you know, it's just amazing to me, is that like,
first of all, and I think these are conversations we're
gonna have throughout the summer into the fall.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
One.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I just I think they might be legitimately the one
of the worst teams in the league. But I don't
ever remember a season going into a season where there
was just no reason to have excitement. Brian Schottenheimer was
not a candidate for any other head coaching job. On
top of all of the other things that got screwed
up that Jerry Jones has screwed up the last couple
of years, that coaching search was as big of an
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abomination as anything that I have ever seen in professional sports.
You frankly wait two to three years, probably too late,
to fire Mike McCarthy. Then the season tanks, then he
does just enough for you to consider keeping him, and
then you wait till after the sea. The point I'm
trying to make, I just think that I don't think
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we can undersell how big of an abomination that search was.
If you want to call it a search, that coaching
higher and the residual effect of I just I don't
think the Cowboys are relevant going into twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I just don't.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I don't think I don't. I don't think so either.
But I also think that people would take eight other
spots before they order pizza Hut. They would rather take
local jeens. Are you a Dominoes or Pizza Hut guy?
Are you not?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Really?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I would take pizza hut?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Can I ask heron Shaye? Are you a Dominoes? Are
you a pizza Hut guy? If you had to pick one, Shay.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I love the the pizza hut stuffed crust. So you're
a pizza hut?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, a pizza hut? All right.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I remember when Manci lost a bet with me and
had to buy a pizza Hut for the whole place.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Sorry, Brady, mean to cut you.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I was just poking Manzi because she likes are you
a pizza Hut person?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I am an all pizza person.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I don't discriminate. Here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, Dominoes went and they said, here's garlic palm bites done.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Yes, here are sinner.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Twists like am I gonna buy a seven dollars. You
know little Caesars pizza. Hey, if it's nearby, sure, absolutely,
I don't discriminate, but.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
They all mix in the same pizza, just takes the
same stuff and tries to make it all over again.
Like you've got other other teams, other brands are passing
them by because they're just sitting there living in the
past like the Dallas Cowboys are. And it took DeMarcus
Lawrence going to Seattle again to a non Super Bowl contender,
to basically say what everybody else was saying. No former
Cowboys were saying this. No one was saying this. But
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as you said, you feel that everybody believes that the
Cowboys are a joke. I agree. I think that everybody does,
except the Dallas Cowboys. But now you have a former
player who spent his entire career there who's going out
and saying, yeah, you're not gonna win a Super Bowl
in Dallas, and the place that he's going isn't even
on your radar of teams in the NFC that have
a chance to make the playoffs or maybe go to
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the Super Bowl. I think that's even more of an
indictment on the Dallas Cowboys than it is on DeMarcus
Lawrence's new team of the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Seahawks and Torres's top three super Bowl. I don't want
to spoil all of our July and August content. By
the way, Brie, I completely cut you off. Are you
a Pizza Hut person or no, I'm so rude.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'm neither.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I love round table pizza.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
There you go see round tables, just the round tables
the Eagles and Domino's. Are the forty nine ers, are
the Lions or just all these other teams that are
taking over them.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
It's just there.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
There was a point when Pizza Hut was what it
was and just like the Dallas Cowboys were something, and
it is no more. Man the Marcus Lawrence though the
shot at Micah Parsons personally at the end, tweeting too much.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I will say in the Jersey swap era, I love
when guys actually go at each other.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
And that was that was pretty Yeah, that was magnificent.
All right.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He's Aaron Torres, I'm Dan Byer. We are in for
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon doing a little nighttime work.
You're more used to the evening than I am. So
this is this is fun. I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I would say during the week, I get up at
about five thirty every day, so I'm not totally used
to the But yes, you can hear.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Me when you're here at work. Oh yeah, no doubt, Yes,
absolutely fine. Aaron at Aaron Underscore torres Monci Milaanhos is
at the news desk tonight, so keep us up to
date on what's happening in all of these conference tournament games,
at least the games that matter, and what's also happening
in the association.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Brianna Murrow is our executive producer and Shaye and the
Big A doing double duty as our technical producer tonight,
so we are excited to have them along for the
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studios and coming up next, did something happen today that
changes the entire face of the upcoming NCAA tournament Aaron
and I discussed next here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
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Speaker 3 (18:51):
It's the Jason Smith Show with Mike Cartmon neither here.
They were in for Kevino and Rich who weren't here
today on Fox Sports Radio. So it's Aaron Torres and
me Dan Byer in for the tonight. I hope you
hang with us. You got to have a fall guy Trucker.
Joe tweets in I agree, old school Pizza Hut was
top of the line, especially with the buffet.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I do remember the buffet.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I was thinking about that is I don't ever remember
it being fine dining, but I was somewhere probably ten
years ago, and I was like, Wow, this Pizza Hut
buffet is really good. And I haven't seen one since Dan.
I haven't seen one since.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They were magnificent. He also included a picture of the
book at receipt. Did you have book it? Were you
old enough to have book it? This was the scam
that school. It wasn't a scam. They tried to get
you to read more as a kid.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Oh God.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And if you read so many pages you would get
a Pizza Hud award for a free personal pan pizza.
So if you read two thousand pages in the month
of March, your teacher would keep track of the books
you read. You do a report on it, and you
would collect it and at the end of the month,
you would get this certificate, which I at first thought
it was a full pan pizza. So I was very
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shocked when I got this tiny, four slice personal pan pizza.
But that's what ended up happening. But that's what you
would get, and if your whole class met their goal,
you could actually get a class pizza party from Pizza Hut.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
So.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I don't have kids, and I don't think really anyone
besides you has kids that's in studio right now. Do
they still do that because it'd be like everything had
like a thing, even like cigarettes. It'd be like, oh,
if you smoke this many packs of cigarettes, you can
send this back and get this free whatever. It's like,
do they still do that anymore? Maybe not with cigarettes,
but it'd be like, oh, if you if you get
all these Snapple bottle caps, you know, good stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I don't know what, Brie, what did you say that
they end up collecting what is boxtops?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Like you like imperial?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I know?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Do they still do that for kids these days?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't I know that they still collect like souper
labels or there's things that you can scan for soup
labels or remember that was a big thing. Yeah, the
box tops. I definitely remember. I remember that. I remember.
I do remember my dad. My dad was I think
he still is a smoker. And you know he used
to Marlboro points.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, coozies and cooler out of my deddiction.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yes, the good old Marlboro points, and you would get
you can get cool gear from it, right, you just
you just gave.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Up cancers a little bit of a small side effect.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
But look at look at this denim jacket I got.
It's amazing. Look at what I keep my pool queue
in it, says Marlborough. Here, it's amazing stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Cony packs. I had to smoke to get this leather jacket.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Too many, dude, too many.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
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how we got on this topic. Uh, the topic in
hand is college basketball. We're gonna dive into the big
move that happened today and how it could affect the
(21:53):
NCAA tournament after Moncy Belanos gives us the latest of
what is happening on this Thursday night. So much going on?
You never collected Marlborough points? Did you want to go? So?
I did not?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
My dad he no longer smokes, thankfully, but he smoked
a lot growing up. In fact, my first sleeping bag
it was a marbile.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Sleeping bag, guys, my first one.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
It was red on the inside. It was like like
plaid and oh absolutely, like you know.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
My dad's mission was to say, everyone was so proud too.
Yeah I am, but that was my.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
First sleeping bag.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
So thanks dad, appreciate it. There's a lot going on
in college sports, so hopefully I don't miss it. Men's
men's college basketball, All right, let's start in the Big
Ten second round going on right now, still early in
the second half, but USC is topping Number twenty per
Due forty nine to forty six. At halftime of the
ACC quarter final Number ten, Clemson edging SMU twenty eight
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to twenty seven in the ACC Number thirteen Louisville.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Oh, it was a good ending shoots.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
It all fell Street missed it rebound. Stanford glance is
the way to Hanford.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I don't know how Chuck came up. We got to
see a replay.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
How the world did he get that?
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Paul Rodgers from lear Field, I don't know how he
got so bad Stanford kid threw it out by ass
accident basketball Gods, no, no, no, that was that was a
crazy moment. They edged Stanford seventy five to seventy three.
The Cardinals are going to face the winner between s
and SMU and Clemson still in the acc which I'm
sure you guys are gonna talk about Duke defeating Georgia Tech. Yeah,
seventy eight to seventy.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
But that's not the story.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
It's that Cooper Flag left the game with the spring
left ankle.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
X rays were.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Negative, but, as the coach said, a very long shot
that he's going to be able to play in tomorrow's
semi finals against North Carolina. In the second round of
the SEC, Texas top number fourteen Texas A and M
ninety four eighty nine in double overtime. So they're going
to face Tennessee in the quarterfinals. Number twenty one Missouri
defeated Mississippi State eighty five to seventy three, and they're
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gonna fly.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
They're going to.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Face number four Florida in the Big Twelve quarter finals.
Number two Houston and number seventeen b Yu both won.
They're going to face each other in the semi finals.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
In the Big East quarter finals.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Number six Saint John's and number twenty five Marquette both victorious.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
They're going to face.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Each other in the semi finals. Creaton outscored to Paul
eighty five to eighty one in double overtime.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
They're going to face the.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Winner right now between Yukon and Villa Nova. They just
got going. This is on FS one early in the
first half. Bit Yukon has a six to five lead, again.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Very very early in the game.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Let's check in on the NBA.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Now, Steph Curry, guys, starting today's game against the Kings
two threes away. No, he's only hit one from hitting
four thousand three pointers.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
So he's won away now because he's hit one.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
And the Warriors are beating the Kings thirty to eighteen
after the first quarter. Pistons lost at home to who
the Wizards.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
On twenty nine.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Washington I don't.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Care Chauncey Phillips and the Pistons lost. Okay, the Bucks
crushed the Lakers one twenty six to one oh six
despite four twenty five points from Luka Dancic. Magic over
the Pelicans, bowls over the nets.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Back to you guys. Oh yeah, Bucks getting a huge
one over the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Oh yeah, yes, yes, Moncey and I are you know
what are.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
They the same page? That's see yes, that's in sync
on that one.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Where were you when the greatest dynasty in the history
of basketball crumbled? Because J Martin and I were on
air when Lebron got hurt last week, and you know,
you don't want to see anybody injured, but thought the
Lakers hype was a little bit much considering that you
have a forty year old superstar and out of shape
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other superstar, and it's like, you don't wish injuries on anybody,
but it's like you could kind of see that they
probably weren't. But that's outside of the defensive deficiencies. Everything
probably not perfectly built for four rounds of high leverage basketball.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Well, we'll find out in April and in May. Monzi
thinks that it's just a convenient time for Lebron to
take a break after tweeting out the schedule that he
was so mad about, which I liked that conspiracy theory
as well. By the way, there was a random tweet
like the Lakers are sending Lebron James back to Los
Angeles as he continues to progress well from his grade one.
I don't want to be so cynical about the guy,
(26:15):
but I do think that Monty is onto something. It
was this stretch right Moncey of the games that he
ended up tweeting about, and it wasn't a tweet.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
It was actually or maybe it was also on Twitter,
but it was on X and it was like on
his story and it was a screenshot of this upcoming
schedule and he was like, shaking my head.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Let me ask both of you. Okay, so I've given
out my breeze heard this a million times, but we're
a month removed from that trade. It still doesn't add
up to me. I'm sorry any especially Yeah, And like
I know, we're not supposed to be like conspiracy theories
and that's for the Internet, but it's like when Mark
Cuban even comes out and he can't explain how it happened.
(26:52):
And by the way, Nico Harrison's argument is, oh, we
value defense. It's like, okay, but now we're also hearing
that you tried it to trade for Anthony Edwards. Nothing
about it makes sense. And I'm not a conspiracy theory guy,
but i just will say that if you are a
conspiracy theory person, there's a lot to work with here.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
That's awesome, that's fair to say.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And there's some people who feel that the Utah Jazz
are gonna win the NBA Draft lottery, so Cooper Flagg
can go to Utah and be the great player. And
now Lorie marketing, it's not playing games. The Jazz are
being fined one hundred thousand dollars, so it looks like
everything's on the up and up.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
We'll see, Yeah, there's right.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
And then well I was gonna say too. The other
part was, I mean, forget we knew Ad was gonna
get hurt. Kyrie, you feel awful, whatever. But when the
before all the injuries, when the MAVs raise season ticket
prices for next year, it's like, yeah, if we've all
seen the loose conspiracy theory of they're actually trying to
pull a major league and be bad enough to move
the team out to be justified, to justify moving the
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team out of Dallas. It's like, that's kind of the
first step. You trade a homegrown superstar. All your fans
are Matt, So what are we gonna do. We're gonna
raise season ticket prices for twenty six.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
The reason I bring up Cooper Flagg is he heard
his ankles. You heard Monty say today in their quarterfinal game,
and John Shire, Duke head coach, talked about the ankle
injury that Flag suffered earlier today in the ACC tournament.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
I would have to be like convinced by everybody in
the locker room when I go back that he should play.
You know, it's it's not worth it, you know, just isn't.
And again, I mean he was swollen already. It's not
about being ready to go tomorrow. That's not the most
important thing for us. We got to see if we
can get him right for this run that we can
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make in the tournament. I would have to be really
convinced that we should even consider seeing if he can
go tomorrow. He may not be able to go anyway.
He probably won't be able to go anyway, But I
think it's a real long shot.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
So John Shy are talking a lot about it. I
don't know if he said a whole lot, just because
in the back of my mind, Aaron, I'm saying it
would be best for Duke for him to not play
in these next two games if they end up advancing
and going to the championship, but also then letting the
committee know that Cooper Flag is okay and should be
ready for the NCAA tournament. There's a bit of a
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little bit of a balancing act here when now you're
looking at Duke in this ankle injury of Cooper Flag.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, yeah, I don't really actually have a ton to add,
like he's not playing. It's funny. I saw all the
reporters on the scene, sources say he might not be avail.
It's like, no, he's not gonna, he's not one. He's
not available. We all saw the fall. You know, this happened,
you know, nine hours ago, ten hours ago, at this point,
we all saw the fall. We all saw video of
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him being carded around in a wheelchair. We all saw
the picture of his ankle and this. We know what
conference tournaments are. They're great. I love them. I understand
people that are a little bit critical of what is
the value of them really, But he's not playing tomorrow.
He's not playing in the ACC tournament if they advanced
to Saturday, and as John Shire said, it's about the
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big tournament. And the other thing too is I don't
think there is a loss that Duke could take at
this point that would not that would result in them
not being the number one seed in the East Region. Uh,
They've got a season's worth of work under their belt.
They they do have a pretty good resume considering the
ACC is really bad. He's not playing tomorrow and it's
not really news otherwise.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I know you're trying to downplaying it, but I do
think that there is a conversation. I do think that
Duke has to has to say in I said, so
there's a chance that he could that that he could play,
because if you're saying that that part is no way
that he's going to play. Now the committee is like, so.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Really quick, I should have responded to that first, because.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
That's the most important the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Yeah, that's that's the most important point. So for people
who don't know the committee, if if the team that
will take the court in the NCAA tournament is not
the team that built the resume. In other words, if
you have an injury and that player will not be available,
you know, the committee is a post a factor that in. So,
(31:01):
as you know, Dan, I'm just telling this for the audience.
The most famous story is two thousand Cincinnati's the number
one team in the country. Kenyan Martin breaks what was
it a foot or a leg? I think it was
his leg in the Conference USA tournament. They fall to
a two seed. And since then we've actually seen teams,
you know. I remember one year Jim Beheim and Syracuse
long ago, they had a player named rinz Ona Waku
(31:24):
who was their starting center, and for like three straight
weeks it was just, oh, he's a game way, he's
a game away because they didn't want to lose the
number one seed. So to your point, I do think
John Shire has to make it pretty clear that he
will be available for the tournament.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
So, and here's the deal with Duke. When it comes
to the tournament, they're gonna get a number one seed.
The question is where they get number one.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Overall.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
The good news for them is one of the first
and second round sites is in Raleigh, North Carolina. That
is a Friday Sunday matchup, So Duke is gonna play
in Raleigh. You would have to imagine in the first
and second rounds of the NCAA tournament, giving Cooper Flag
an extra day of rest, they will also very likely
(32:03):
Aaron be in that seven o'clock Eastern time tip off game,
which is, you know, such a primetime window when you're
trying to set up first round games. There's no way
they're playing in the early session on Friday. So I
think the committee and where Duke is, they're not going
to do them any favors. But I think that Cooper
Flag is going to have the maximum amount of time
(32:24):
to try to be ready for the NCAA tournament. It's
now just the message that Duke sends out on how
serious that is and if it will affect their overall
seating or now.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Yeah, and maybe that's why John Shire answered the question
the way that he did, in the sense of like.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Oh, it's totally why he did it that way.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Yeah, I'd have to be convinced otherwise that makes sense.
I hadn't even thought that far about it. But you're right,
is the committee, they do have a responsibility if there
is a player that will not be available to see
you as such, and so I think that is that
is probably why John Shire left the door just cracked
wide open enough to say, oh, no, he's not out
for the tournament. No, it could be you know, I'd
have to let my guys talk into it, but he
(33:00):
could be back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I know the odd Couple touched on this a little bit,
but I for as much as Cooper Flag has been
great this season, I don't think he's taken over the
season like Zion did when he was at Duke, and
so I don't think you're going to see I think
that there will be people that will be brought in
by Cooper Flag, but it's still Duke in the NCAA tournament.
I don't think people would shy away if Cooper Flag
(33:21):
was like, let's say, not available for the first and
second rounds. They were Calvin may have brought it up.
Is it going to hurt you know, the tournament at all?
I just don't think that that's necessarily realistic, just because
I actually expected more of a of a I don't
know marketing blitz about the Flag this year, and it hasn't.
He's been great by all means he's lived up to
(33:42):
the expectations. It's just everything around it hasn't been as
big as I thought.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Yeah, I'll be really quick, so I thought it was
gonna be bigger as well. I think it's a direct
reflection of not only the ACC being down, but specifically
Carolina being down. And I'm just disappointed because I did
think there would be some momentum because Cooper Flagg, I guess,
such a good player that if they started winning, you know,
every game, you kind of bring in more people. Zion
(34:06):
from the beginning of the year was bringing in people.
Cooper Flag hasn't really had that effect. But I also
don't believe if he's not available first round, second round,
that impacts the tournament at all. I've heard those stories before.
I think it matters minimally at most.
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Speaker 5 (35:57):
Can I just.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Say one thing I love about March SEC Tournament. The
last game just tipped off here at ten to fifty
Eastern time. We're probably getting well past a one pm
one am Eastern finish time. There as guys that are
going to be on until two. I love that there's
just live sports on just.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
The entire It's magnificent.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
And this is the perfect time to mention this topic
because Kentucky's facing Oklahoma right now in the SEC Tournament
second round play. Big Ten second round play is USC
against Purdue, and in the Big twelve quarters we have
Kansas against Arizona. And you want to know what's so
(36:38):
unique about those three games?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
By the way, ACC clems in an SMU and a
pseudo bubble team as well.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Sure, and that just wasn't on our TV. That's but
you know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
New schools in different conferences, and you've got these games
like Oklahoma here playing for their turnurnament lives, like they
need to win this game against Kentucky. USC really doesn't
have tournament hopes unless they win the Big Ten. That's
their only chance of getting in. But we have Kansas Arizona.
(37:12):
And while it's not an NCAA tournament make or break,
how awesome is it that we get Kansas Arizona?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Pretty cool?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
And my whole point is in looking what we've had
in this first year of true realignment. And I understand
that BYU was in the Big Twelve last year, but
I still think that there's like a part of it,
like their story, in seeing what Houston has done in
that conference as well. But in this first true full
(37:39):
year of full conference realignment, no one, to me has
benefited more than the Big Twelve. And it has been
amazing when you see like, yes, sign me up Kansas Arizona. Yes,
of all those games right here that you would write
if you were to tell me, which game do you
want to watch? Kansas Arizona Big twelve football and all
(37:59):
was great this year. Who represents them? Arizona State almost
knocks off Texas in the Peach Bowl to do it
like they're there may be bigger moves Texas and Oklahoma
going to the SEC obviously on that landscape, but those
were the headliners.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
The Big Ten's four from the Pac twelve.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Were the headliners. But to see what the Big twelve
has got, Aaron, I just I've been amazed all year.
Every time we'd have a great game featuring I think
I even told you and BYU and Arizona were playing,
or Arizona was at Baylor, I'm like, thank goodness this happened,
because this is really really good stuff.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Well, a couple of things one first of all. The
other thing too, And I know this is why some
of the schools are strategically picked a lot of late
games too. And I know we had late games with
the Pac twelve, but it is different when it's Baylor
at Arizona, Iowa State at Arizona, Arizona at BYU.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Yeah, it's been it's been really fun, you know. I mean,
obviously part of me is a little sad about the
PAC twelve. But listen, you know, I think like, just
as an example, if you asked an Arizona fan, would
they did they love being in Vegas every year for
the PAC twelve tournament. They did, But would they rather
be in Kansas City challenging themselves against Kansas and then
the winner gets to face Texas Tech, which is a
(39:12):
top ten team. Yeah, they'd prefer that rather than going
and playing in front of Oregon State when Oregon State
has fifteen fans in the building. So there are you know,
some negative certainly to conference realignment, but some of the
matchups that we get it we are getting are no
doubt positive.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Look at how many great matchups Arizona got to play
this year in the big.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Twelve year fans are all thrilled.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Yes, yeah, and I'm sorry, I know you missed the
PAC twelve tournament. We missed PAC twelve after Dark and
the craziness of it. But any of those games that
Arizona would leave Tucson for do not register in comparison
to the other places. The home games didn't rich so
that they that they could go to. It's yeah, it's
(39:54):
a it's the same sort of deal.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
They'd get UCLA once a year and then other than
that it was, oh Washington's, oh cows here whatever. Now,
I just one of my best friends in media covers
Arizona and I texted him probably mid January when, like
you said, it was a Baylor on a Tuesday night,
or and I always stayed on a Monday night, or
Kansas at some point, it's just they Arizona basketball, you
(40:17):
could say specifically was. And by the way, the other
thing for Arizona geographically it makes sense as opposed to
a USC and UCLA that are flying all over the country.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Sure, and then you get to you still get to
keep your rivalry with Arizona State because they stay in
conference like it's been.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
It's been.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
It's been really good for the Big Twelve, not only
this past year but in the other editions as well.
Except for Bill self, he s and Tares, I'm Dan
Byer in for Jason Smith and Mike Harmon On this
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